The Emma Maersk is herself a gift, her recovery a hopeful and inspiring tale of recovery and success. A welding job on the main deck, close to the end of working hours, led to a fire that totally destroyed the almost finished accommodation quarters and all the equipment in the wheelhouse. During the final phase of construction and amid welding work however, a fire broke within Emma Maersk’s multi-million dollar bridge. In losing Emma Maersk, we too, would have lost one of the most environmentally friendly container vessels ever built, as seen in her waste heat recovery system, which saves up to ten percent of the ship’s power. Crew was transferred to hospital in Norfolk. In 2011, South Korean shipbuilder DSME won a 1.3B Euro contract to construct a vessel nearly double the size of the Emma Maersk… the Pieter Schelte. 1400 UTC: Tug ATLANTIC ENTERPRISE took LAURA MAERSK on tow, port of destination Newark. UPDATE : 12th March 2018 – In a press release, Maersk Line has updated everyone on the situation on the Maersk Honam as below :. He maintains the "Maritime Bulletin", a private maritime news and analysis website for many years now and frequently publishes on FleetMon.com as a guest editor. UPDATE: Tug ATLANTIC ENTERPRISE (IMO 7417240) seems to be contracted for LAURA MAERSK towage (or delivery of spare parts and probably, technicians, to fix problem on board and restart engine), judging from ships’ tracks. All rights reserved. Posted in Accidents by Mikhail Voytenko on Jun 06, 2020 at 05:51. A year after the pivotal story of the Emma Maersk fire she was awarded “Ship of the Year” by Lloyd’s List, the world’s longest running periodical. Watch below video clip about the incident, Return from Fire on the Emma Maersk to Container ship. In June 2006, during construction, welding work caused a fire within the superstructure. Copyright © 2009-2020, Container-Transportation.Com. Emma was given this award not because of her story, but because she set new standards in innovation, environmental issues and safety for the Maersk Line.
The Emma Maersk’s Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel ship engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover of super ships in the world today. As of 0530 UTC Jun 6, LAURA MAERSK remained according to track, disabled and adrift, no tug in sight, probably crew will manage to restart engine by own means. The A.P. Container ship LAURA MAERSK suffered an explosion in engine room, which injured one crew and disabled the ship, late Jun 4 in North Atlantic, SE of Newark, USA. Remains of three out of four of the missing crew members found onboard Maersk Honam. During construction of the mega ship's superstructure at Baltija Shipyard at Klaipeda, Lithuania, welding works caused a devastating fire in the accommodation quarters in the early days of June 2006.
It will be an incredible vessel by every measure once completed.
Posted in Accidents on Nov. 12, 2020 at 12:03.
Møller Mærsk Group, och går i trafik för Maersk Line.Fartyget är byggt vid Lindövarvet i Odense och har fått sitt namn efter Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møllers avlidna hustru Emma och blev döpt den 12 augusti 2006 av Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla. The following are photos and video taken by the local fire brigade that fought the mighty Emma Maersk fire: Filed Under: Blog, Fire Incidents, Incidents, Interesting, Multimedia, Photo, Shipyard, Video Tagged With: Active Archive, containerships, Emma Maersk, Featured, fire, Fire Incidents, Interesting, largest ships, maersk, Marine Incidents, marine-firefighting, photos, Ships, Shipyard, video.